Stage and screen star Beau Bridges, a three-time Emmy winner, will play Arvide Abernathy in the the Hollywood Bowl's upcoming summer presentation of the classic Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls.

Beau Bridges

As previously announced, Richard Jay-Alexander, who helmed last summer's acclaimed Les Misérables in Concert at the Bowl, will direct. Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie will choreograph the production, which will play the famed venue July 31-Aug. 2. Kevin Stites will be the musical director.

Beau Bridges has appeared in over 50 feature films. He has received 11 Emmy nominations and won three. His wins were for Best Actor in "Without Warning: The James Brady Story" and Best Supporting Actor for "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom" and "The Second Civil War." On the stage, Bridges performed in the original productions of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Father Daniel Berrigan at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and on Broadway in both William Inge's Where's Daddy? and Peter Ustinov's Who's Who in Hell. He also originated the role of Roy in Looking for Normal by Jane Anderson at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The original Broadway production opened at Broadway's 46th Street Theatre in November 1950, running 1,200 performances before closing Nov. 28, 1953. Among the premiere cast were Robert Alda as Sky Masterson, Isabel Bigley as Sarah Brown, Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit and Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide. Blaine re-created her role for the 1955 film, which also starred Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, Jean Simmons as Sarah Brown and Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit.